Chapter 23 (1/2)

Some of the dialogue is in italic because it’s written mostly in katakana in the original text.

I also edited the previous chapter’s dialogue to express the same concept.

The Story Of A Certain Adventurer (5)

……Pichan……Pichan

The sound of water dripping. Within that sole echoing sound, I raise my heavy eyelids. With my vision still blurred from having just opened my eyes, I take a look around. Around me, I’m surrounded by rock walls, it’s as though it’s a place like a cave. A clammy atmosphere is drifting about.

I tried moving my arms but, it won’t move at all. It seems like it’s tied above my head. My magic power gets absorb up even when I try releasing magic so I can’t release any.

I take a look at my body and……wh, what’s this! I’m tied up in a way that places emphasis on my b.r.e.a.s.t.s! A difficult tying method that makes deliberate intersections on the cleavage……what’s the intention of tying me up this way!?

Without knowing what’s going on, I take a close look at my body to see if there are any other weird parts and, since my attire didn’t change, it seems like nothing was done to me and I was able to feel relieved. However, this position that looks like I’m pus.h.i.+ng my b.r.e.a.s.t.s out is slightly painful.

Because my legs are weighted down so that I can’t escape, I can’t even hope to escape from this place.

“Have you woken up?”

As I thought about whether there are some other ways to escape, a robed man suddenly appears before my eyes. I glare at the man so that at least my heart doesn’t yield and, the robed man laughs ‘Funh’ with his nose as he takes a quick look at my face.

I who looked at the inside of the robe nearby almost shouted out unintentionally. What’s inside the robe is, not……a human’s face, it’s the face of a skeleton. Which means that this skeleton is a monster. Manipulating dead spirit type monsters like zombies, a monster that’s proficient in magic……a Necromancer.

Red lights that s.h.i.+ne where the eyes should be meet my eyes. Though my consciousness feels like it’s going to be absorbed into the red lights that are within the darkness, I hold strongly onto my consciousness.

“Hou, as I thought, brainwas.h.i.+ng doesn’t work on Sister huh”

“I won’t lose no matter what’s done to me! Lynk and the others will definitely come to save me! They won’t lose to someone like you!”

The necromancer who heard what I confidently declare, sunk into silence but, laughs out in the next instant.

“A girl who says interesting things. The comrades of you who can’t even beat someone of my level, what are they capable of?”

“They are stronger than someone like me. Please don’t look down on Lynk and the others!”

“Is that so. Then, shall we have some fun and take a look at it”

The necromancer says that and snaps his fingers. When he does that, something floats up onto the rock wall……that is!?

“Right now, in the town, your comrades are, in order to save you, fighting with the townfolks and my underlings. I wonder if they can arrive here, safely?”

Projected on the stone wall suddenly was, the sight Lynk and the others under attack by the townsfolks and zombies. I don’t know how it’s being projected but, the sight of the fight with the townfolks and the zombies is being projected clearly.

Lynk and the others are trying not to hurt the townfolks as far as possible by knocking them out and defeating the zombies. However, it’s obvious even through the projection that they are exhausted.

They are somewhat enduring it now but, if they were to be attacked even more than this then everybody will……

“Those guys, don’t seem like they’ll be able to make it here”

Even though it’s the face of a skeleton, the necromancer says that as though he’s smiling. How powerless I am. Getting caught by the enemy because of my own mistake, making everybody on the team go through a danger like this because of me……